Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States

[franklanguage]

Despite significant recent public concern and media attention to the environmental impacts of food, few studies in the United States have systematically compared the life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with food production against long-distance distribution, aka “food-miles.” We find that although food is transported long distances

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[wojtesticles]

people should eat more brains

since that's what they lack, you're hard drinking eat some liver, hard of thinking eat some brains.

[franklanguage]

Get back in your bottle!

[perseusomega9]

Oh noes, the big scary co2, quick lets focus all our energy on this one compound for effects we cannot predict, unlike say mercury, industrial chemicals, factory farming and disease resistance, etc.

[franklanguage]

Are you also saying we should eat more brains? What are you trying to say?

[perseusomega9]

MMM brains.

I'm saying all the study and calculations such as the greenhouse gas miles above are a waste of resources when we should be taking that same expenditure in time and money to solve more immediate problems with effects that are concretely measured, as opposed to co2 that may or may not have some nebulous effect in the far or near future.

[perseusomega9]

You make too much sense sir (or maam).